Lactation counseling for maintaining exclusive breastfeeding in adolescent mothers: a trial protocol | Pilot and Feasibility Studies | Full Text

Adolescent mothers have lower rates of initiation, continuation, and exclusivity of breastfeeding, and even more so in the first pregnancy. Current interventions target adult women, and little evidence is available for breastfeeding promotion among adolescents. This is a pilot study protocol with a parallel, single-blind, randomized, and controlled trial design, to evaluate the feasibility of the intervention “Lactation Counseling” in first-time adolescent mothers to maintain exclusive breastfeeding in the first 6 months of life. The control group will receive routine education in prenatal care and prenatal and childbirth classes, the experimental group will receive additionally the intervention “Lactation Counseling”, for 4 weeks, both conducted by trained nurses. Feasibility outcome includes recruitment and dropout rates, and, pilot outcomes will be the exclusive breastfeeding rate and the breastfeeding knowledge. Measurements will be taken at baseline, post-intervention, and 2, 4, a

Lactation counseling for maintaining exclusive breastfeeding in adolescent mothers: a trial protocol Study Protocol Open access Published: 16 December 2021 Volume 7 , article number 219 ( 2021 ) Cite this article You have full access to this open access article Download PDF Save article View saved research Pilot and Feasibility Studies Aims and scope Submit manuscript Lactation counseling for maintaining exclusive breastfeeding in adolescent mothers: a trial protocol Download PDF Abstract Background Adolescent mothers have lower rates of initiation, continuation, and exclusivity of breastfeedi

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